"Little Blue"

[JohnnyAces]

Hi!
First Off - Im kinda new to this Forum, and i must say its a fabulous Forum!
This is my First attempt of a Café Racer. Hopefully it'll go Awsome! ;D


This is the object im starting with, and since i'm a cheap fuck i want to keep it at low cost - next to nothing.
And since i also am kind of a original nut i want everything to be as original as possible or modified original, this cause i think its better looking AND Im a low-income unemployed skinny bastard

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

This here is the frame im going to use
As you can see the frame is slightly damaged and in pretty poor condtion :-\

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

BTW you'll have to excuse the quality of the pictures (phone camera)

I personally think the paint scheme is awesome original on the blue one ill use the essentials from that on
these are parts im going to use:

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

as you can see the tank is slightly damaged as well unfortunately :-X But as i said im a cheap bastard and it will do for now. I also think that since it is an old bike it should show.

My goal for now is to just get it up and running

I'll also use the blue headlight as its condition is rather good, compared to the original one that was on the frame at first, That one was painted black by some one who used to live deep in the bushes and called himself "Shotgun-Pete" Awful that is. But the chrome ring on the original was in better shape so i'll use that one ;D

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

And the Fenders I'll use for the build are not original to the frame either (when you'll see it, you'll understand)

the ones i'll use are chrome and not in the best of shapes but what the hell, they're decent for now.
But since i'm kinda a chrome-opponent the goal is to paint the fenders along with the other details white, how bout that?

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

Following picture is of the frames original tank, usable or what do you say?

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

here's a change - I'll use the frames original seat though. Why? cause the seat of the blue one was a horrid black "King and Queen" saddle. Absolutely terrible IMO.

This one is like "a whiter shade of pale" you know not really white and not beige but something inbetween, a little polish on it will probably make it a bit more decent

and for a change ill use the original exhaust pipes, for a while at least, im thinking on giving it a scrambler looking exhaust later on what do you think?

Unfortunately the pipes suffered through quite a bit by the looks of them, but same here - a little polish and they're ready to go

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

the gauges i'll use are the original ones to the blue one, reason - the red ones where all black bad condition and damaged to moist underneath the glass :-\

 

[JohnnyAces]

Re: "Little Blue" Honda CB125 K5

Here's a quick mock up of how the future completed will look like.

I think itt will make it easier to visualize

Opinions and ideas are welcome - so come on tell me what you think!

 

[BIG E]

Looks like a good project I am on board

 

[jimboburgess]

nice don't see many white seats

 

[JohnnyAces]

nice don't see many white seats

Really? cause I dont really know all about that much, in sweden theese bikes are kind of uncommon, I cant remember having seen one in like ever :-\ which makes the project all that more fun

 

[JohnnyAces]

Usable? or what do you say?

 

[JohnnyAces]

Hello and sorry for my inactivity!

Im kind of in a x-road here so i figuered id check in to see what U guys think.
Sidecovers use or not?

Since im going for a cafe look im not sure if to use them, but they look so darn nice.

And also im going for a white detail look...NOTE Not black. So im thinking that the best looking thing to do might be to change the black stripe on the tank to white, what do you think?

Thishas been bothering me to insanity!

 

[YogiBear]

I think the tank should stay with the black stripe and I think the sidecovers would look good if you left them on. They both have a really classic look to them.

 

[BCBarker]

that black/blue seat is cool! What are you doing with it? Looks like you are making some good progress. Keep it up!